So, you’ve created a WordPress Multisite installation, and you come to add your users. Simple right? Wrong! Multisite introduces additional authentication steps, whereby a user needs to activate their account by clicking a link that has been sent to them….
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Add Select2 as an InspectorControl in WordPress Gutenberg
For a project I was working on I wanted to use Select2 as a Gutenberg InpectorControl to allow me apply settings to a block. This tutorial will also give you the foundation you need for getting any third party React Component…
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Dynamic Variable Names in PHP
A question I sometimes get asked is can you dynamically set the name of a variable in PHP. For example someone may have a loop, and they want the variables in that loop to have unique names. The answer is,…
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Improving Productivity and Focus by Removing Distractions
I am a remote worker. This means that I, and the majority of the people I work with also work remotely. This may be from their home, from a shared workspace, from a cafe or even in the middle of…
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How to Write a Personal Social Media Strategy
There are lots and lots of social media channels out there, and people use each of them in different ways. If you tried to post to all the social networks without automating everything, you wouldn’t have time left in the…
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Custom TinyMCE Editor Formatting in WordPress
Sometimes when writing a block of text using the WordPress editor, you need it to look a certain way, we usually do this by adding styles to pieces of text, but we don’t always want our clients to have to…
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How to make Responsive Web Design (RWD) Background Images
I work with Dave Green on a daily basis at our WordPress focused web development agency Make Do. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a service that comes as standard with all of our products.
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Changing your WordPress site language (locale) dynamically
There are some fantastic multilingual plugins for WordPress, however for one client project I needed something far more flexible, as this particular client needed to cater for several countries that each spoke several languages. In short the client needed to…
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Code Clinic – WordPress Sheffield June 2017
I have an aim to help grow and support the WordPress community as a whole. Along with my code and plugin contributions to WordPress, I have also supported the WordPress Sheffield community group. To cater to a wide verity of interests,…
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Enforce Version Control in WordPress to Boost Security
If you have spent a long time working on your clients website, ensuring everything is in version control (such as git). Then you would be pretty gutted if your client edits a theme file, or adds a new plugin that lives…